The Federal Government has accused former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki of making $1.2billion transactions in one day without explaining what the deals were about. Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed told reporters in his Oro hometown in Kwara State that releasing Dasuki and Shi’ite leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky without extracting information from them would have a negative impact on national security. He spoke after a Ramadan lecture he organised in the town. Dasuki, he said, would remain in custody for… Read more

A civil society organization, Sovereign Rights Coalition (SRC), has called on the Federal Government to prosecute Shiite leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky for acts of terrorism. The group also wants the government to cut diplomatic ties with the Republic of Iran over the role played by the country during the attack on Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria led by Ibrahim, El-zakzaky. El-Zakzaky and members of Shiite were involved in a December 2015… Read more

Five years ago, security agents grossly mishandled Boko Haram’s unorthodox approach to social and religious engineering. Many analysts, including this column, and rights groups warned stridently that government’s approach was counterproductive. No one listened. The consequence, today, is a full-blown rebellion unmitigated by any panacea the government might throw at it. Indeed, the prospect of a complete overthrow of the old order is now absolutely not impossible. Five years after the folly of 2009, the government’s security agencies, which act… Read more